2. A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under
water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
3. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind
of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
4. A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
[Collog.] --Thackeray.
5. A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
6.
(a) Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's
progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a
canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See {Drag
sail} (below).
(b) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a
carriage wheel.
(c) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to
progress or enjoyment.
My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no
drag. --J. D.
Forbes.
7. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if
clogged. ``Had a drag in his walk.'' -- Hazlitt.
8. (Founding) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper
part being the cope.
9. (Masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing
of soft stone.
10. (Marine Engin.) The difference between the speed of a
screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the
ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects
of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation
under {Drag}, v. i., 3.
{Drag sail} (Naut.), a sail or canvas rigged on a stout
frame, to be dragged by a vessel through the water in
order to keep her head to the wind or to prevent drifting;
-- called also {drift sail}, {drag sheet}, {drag anchor},
{sea anchor}, {floating anchor}, etc.
{Drag twist} (Mining), a spiral hook at the end of a rod for
cleaning drilled holes.
2. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance
with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
The day drags through, though storms keep out the
sun. --Byron.
Long, open panegyric drags at best. -- Gay.
3. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the
vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can
propel her. --Russell.
Dragged by the cords which through his feet were
thrust. --Denham.
The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag
thee down. --Tennyson.
A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a
wounded snake, drags its slow length along. --Pope.
2. To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to
harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or
other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag.
Then while I dragged my brains for such a song.
--Tennyson.
3. To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in
pain or with difficulty.
Have dragged a lingering life. -- Dryden.
{To drag an anchor} (Naut.), to trail it along the bottom
when the anchor will not hold the ship.